I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut will be postponed. Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Rush The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I too have great confidence in PHMSA to be able to determine whether or not the chemical creates any issues. Bitumen has been around for 91 years with heavy crude, and so I just don't think there is a need for additional delays or studies…

I first want to state that this is an infrastructure bill. This is a $13 billion project, $13 billion spent in the United States, employing United States workers. On the surface, my friend from Illinois' amendment seems fairly innocuous…

This bill is simple, but the ramifications may be significant. Let me set the record straight: I want to get off OPEC oil. Receiving as much as 700,000 barrels of oil from our northern neighbor, Canada, makes us more energy secure, more…

In closing, I want to allay the fears here. To sit there and say that this hasn't been studied, we have the environmental impact study; we have the supplemental. This has been studied. All the agencies are involved, including PHMSA. I'm…

I yield myself the balance of my time. I hold up the United States Department of State report here. A cooperating agency in the development of the report is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The actual study was done by the…

I would like to inform the Chair and the gentlelady from Texas that we think that her amendment reflects the thoughts of the American people, and we agree with it. I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge all of my colleagues here to vote against this. This is, A, nonsensical and not even relevant here. Why? Well, maybe some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have confused a public works project with this private…

American workers and American consumers will be better off. They will reap the advantages of a reliable source of energy, eliminating, or at least greatly reducing, the uncertainties that cause the gas price spikes at the pump. Let's…

I would like to join my friend in standing up for the truth and accuracy; so what I will do is read the Supplemental Environmental Impact Study. Page 7: ``The WORLD and DOE Energy Technologies Perspective model analyses results show no…

Two points here: I think, number one, the gentlelady's amendment really helps define what the real issue here is. It isn't with, necessarily, the pipeline or its placement of the pipeline or a chemical that's in it. It's actually about…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Vermont will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Rush The CHAIR. It is now in order to…

I urge rejection of this gutting amendment. What this would do is basically say you can't build any pipelines in this general area. I would like the gentleman from Vermont to know that there are many pipelines already running through this…

The crux of this amendment is that the gentlelady from California is asking for another study. That seems to be kind of the new tactic of how to delay or kill a bill; let's do a study instead of implementing something. I want to talk about…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Hawaii will be postponed. Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. Johnson of Georgia The Acting…

I missed rollcall No. 600. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

I missed rollcall No. 599. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill. Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered. This will be a 5-minute vote. The…

This amendment would reduce the Department of Energy administration account by $35 million and increase the Global Threat Reduction Initiative by a $35 million amount as well. As cofounder of the House Nuclear Security Caucus, together…